They've arrived!

This weekend new visitors came. The books finally arrived and James my youngest invited himself to stay for a week. Just him and me and the books.

I've been looking forward to having him over. I can't say the same about these books. I really did not want to read anything. But now that they're here I'm glad.

Float on...

Newspaper, color paper, felt and beads on thread

Felt and pony beads on thread

"Cut from the same cloth"

Look what I found on Pintrest?

I can't believe it. I'm so excited! I feel like I finally found someone who speaks my language.

http://andreamyersartist.com/home.html

I also saw an exhibit by Emily Payne at Erica Tanov.

http://www.emilypayne.net/index.html

When I looked on Emily's website I remembered she'd done an earlier installation with Erica Tanov similar to this:

And this work reminded me of Ruth Asawa.

evolving idea...

Two new directions

Alma Woodsey Thomas and Joan Brown

I'm going to spend some time reading about and being inspired by their art.

Alma Woodsey Thomas

Joan Brown

Notes on the animations

1) These animations and the imovie all look a little blurry. I think this is the transition from SAM to quicktime movie. They don't look blurry on my computer before I export them.

2) On my next experiments I'll put titles and credits.

3) Here's my favorite animation by one of my favorite animators/filmmakers. i love the simplicity of the images.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpunQZ4cUyI

Animation practice

Colormotions. Another experiment with the SAM software. I tried duplicating and reversing the frames. I'm not sure why the light flickers so much. It looks like an old school TV. I don't mind it but I'd like to have control over these issues. I think I nudged the lamp slightly each shot.